. Sword and pen : or, Ventures and adventures of Willard Glazier in war and literature ... . ber, 1864. Coming Street on the morning of thatday was crowded with people of every variety of call-ing, from the priest and sister of charity, out on theirmerciful errands, to the riff-raff and sans-culottes out onno errand at all but to help the excitement. The citywas under siege. At the end of the street a body of six hundredemaciated, broken-spirited, ragged men, escorted by astrong guard, marched along, and the busiest of thepedestrians paused to gaze upon them as they and scurrilou
. Sword and pen : or, Ventures and adventures of Willard Glazier in war and literature ... . ber, 1864. Coming Street on the morning of thatday was crowded with people of every variety of call-ing, from the priest and sister of charity, out on theirmerciful errands, to the riff-raff and sans-culottes out onno errand at all but to help the excitement. The citywas under siege. At the end of the street a body of six hundredemaciated, broken-spirited, ragged men, escorted by astrong guard, marched along, and the busiest of thepedestrians paused to gaze upon them as they and scurrilous was the greeting the captivesreceived from the motley and shameless groups. Afew of the more respectable citizens, however, spokewords of grace to them, and some added hopeful pre-dictions of the final triumph of the Union cause. Theprisoners were hurried forward to the yard of CharlestonJail, where for the first time in many weary monthsthey beheld the glorious flag of their country floatingin the breeze over Morris Island. Weak as they were(206) HO >- w r w 03 H O Oc*H w >o tzj. HE NEW YORK UC LIBRARY CHARLESTON JAIL. 207 the patriotic sentiment was still strong within them,and they gave one rousing cheer! Some, despite thecurses of their guard, dancing like children, whileothers wept tears of joy. The jail, as Captain Glazier describes it, was a largeoctagonal building of four stories, surmounted by atower. In the rear was a large workshop, in appear-ance like a bastile, where some of the prisoners wereconfined. As a lugubrious accessory to his own quar-ters, he had a remarkably clear view of a gallows,erected directly in front of his fragment of a tent. The ground floor of the jail was occupied by ordinarycriminal convicts; the second story by Confederateofficers and soldiers, under punishment for militaryoffences; the third by negro prisoners, and the fourthby Federal and Confederate deserters, and it is com-plimentary to the good sense of the rebels that deserters
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